tegan pyke

tegan pyke

@tegan.online

[insert more witty and interesting profile here] | PhD fellow @ University of Bergen, Norway | Editor and Barker @ electronicbr.bsky.social 💾 digital culture, the web, writing, and vernacular creativity

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Do NOT recommend moving to Bergen with a dog who hates being out in the rain. Just had to bribe mine to stay out long enough to take a shit. Assured mutual misery.

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Having finally watched Better Man, I’m wondering: can ALL movies be thematically elevated by replacing the protagonist with a human-like CGI chimpanzee?

At what point does user-led adaptive algospeak transform into newspeak? Would be doubleplusgood to figure this out before oldthink is unalived

In this one you can learn all about the cyberdebates! An iconic moment in ebr and electronic literature history where hypertext and cybertext theorists duked it out

sleep paralysis is one of those things in life where I sympathise with early humanity. without contemporary science, I’d totally think I’d just been possessed

A decade ago I quit the series entirely, disgusted by the husked out shell of a game EA offered up after the wonders of Sims 3’s open neighbourhoods

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On retrospect, really should’ve seen this news coming after the abomination below did the rounds a week or so ago:

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social

The Labour Party, who are currently forming the government of a G8 country, made this:

Really depressing that their message always gets twisted from ‘stifling and ignoring women’s contributions is a societal ill’ to ‘WOMEN WANT TO FUCK’

“As a flesh-based intelligence system, I’m too insecure about my level of knowledge to try answering your question. Please ask something else.”

‘Help! My personality has been scraped for a general artificial intelligence agent’ and other 21st century problems (2053) Navneson, N. Textpocalypse Press.

Jason Scott@textfiles.com

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

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